The list of powerful men (and women) mentioned in the millions of pages of Epstein Files is long and disturbing, yet predictable. It pretty much features any fuckass who had any amount of power or money in the 90s and early 2000s, including Donald Trump, Richard Branson, Elon Musk, Casey Wasserman, Howard Lutnick, the list goes on…
It’s probably more likely we all win the lottery before Trump is ever truly questioned about his many, many, many mentions in the Epstein Files, which include (uninvestigated) allegations of rape and pedophilia. But across the pond, there is one guy in the Epstein Files who is maybe, actually, finally being held to some level of account.
On Thursday, the former Prince Andrew, who’s officially been Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor for four months now, was arrested less than a month after the Department of Justice released millions of pages and over 180,000 images from the Epstein Files. Imagine that!
In a statement, Thames Valley Police said King Charles III’s little brother was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. (It’s also his 66th birthday. Rough.) In the U.K, that’s a maximum sentence of life in prison. Though per British law, police did not name Mountbatten-Windsor.
“We understand the significant public interest in this case, and we will provide updates at the appropriate time,” they said in a statement when asked if it had been Mountbatten-Windsor who was arrested. “Following a thorough assessment, we have now opened an investigation into this allegation of misconduct in public office.” In reaction to the news, the king said, “the law must take its course.” Hear that, America?!
Police cars were photographed outside Mountbatten-Windsor’s Sandringham home on Thursday morning, and authorities were searching both that residence and his former Windsor home. After the Epstein Files dump, police said they were investigating a claim that he shared confidential documents with Epstein while serving as U.K. trade envoy in 2010.
For years, Virginia Giuffre had claimed she was
forced to have sex with Andrew three times as a teenager, and that he “
believed that having sex with me was his birthright.” In October, less than two weeks after Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir was published, the former prince was stripped of his title and evicted from his Windsor residence.
So it might not be the alleged sexual assaults or sex trafficking that takes him down…it might be that he got careless with some paperwork. What a world.
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